Posts By Alex Esten

In a post over at PlayXBLA, the first Xbox One TV ad was shown, and for an advertisement released first in the American TV market, it has a distinct …
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In a recent Reddit AMA, the founders of Telltale Games, Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner, fielded questions about current and upcoming Telltale projects, their creative process, Valve’s SteamOS/SteamMachines, Linux …
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Earlier today, Penny Arcade posted a brief write-up on the Killer Instinct Pin Ultimate Edition for Xbox One, and inadvertently confirmed that Fulgore will be the eighth character for …
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Last week, XBLAFans ran down the 25 best XBLA games to be released on the Xbox 360. This week, some of the games that didn’t make the cut get …
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EKO Software’s action/adventure/survival game, How to Survive, is now available for $14.99. The game is set on an isolated group of islands that happen to be completely infested with …
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The NPD Group released sales figures for the month of September, and there are a number of surprises.

First, the PlayStation 3 has outsold the Xbox 360 for the first time in 32 months. While this isn’t necessarily a major turning point, it is still a milestone for Sony’s once beleaguered system. Released later than its competition and at a significantly higher price, the PS3 long struggled to make headway against the Xbox 360 in North America. That extra year allowed Microsoft to establish an early lead and to later widen that gap through studio acquisitions, exclusivity agreements and some very smart targeting of specific developers and publishers.

High-profile, big name releases like BioShock, Mass Effect and The Orange Box all hit the Xbox 360 first. These were massive, massive titles that could truly justify the “Only on Xbox 360” stamp, and if they were to appear on PS3, it was anywhere from two months to a year later. Microsoft also successfully lured away the single biggest former third-party PlayStation-exclusive franchise: Final Fantasy.

Unfortunately, there was little Sony could do to stop the bleeding. It had to focus on making the PS3 profitable. This meant lowering production costs and resisting the calls for significant price cuts. The past year or two, we’ve seen the strategy starting to work, with the system starting to turn around. That said, this generation has been tough for the PS3, so it’s nice to see the September sales bump.

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Today, in a post on the Hello Games site, new details were shared about the Undead Movie Pack for Joe Danger 2.

The add-on pack features 15 new levels …
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Update: The Minecraft Natural Texture Pack is available now for $1.00. Original story follows.

Minecraft is the gift that keeps on giving. Its XBLA release could have been a …
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Sales data from the NPD Group shows that Nintendo’s 3DS outsold the Xbox 360 and PS3 in August 2013. This is the second summer month in which the 3DS …
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In a recent conversation with Official Xbox Magazine, Unity CEO David Helgason discussed a collaborative partnership between Unity and Microsoft, providing Unity support for the Xbox One. This, Helgason …
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